Traditional French Recipe: Floating Islands

Creamy, delicious and a traditional recipe… what is it? Floating islands!

The floating island is a European dessert of French origin. This creamy, soft dessert consisting of meringues (prepared from whipped egg whites and sugar) floating on creme anglaise. The light yellow custard prepared with egg yolks, vanilla beans and hot milk. Floating island is a perfect dessert for a late summer day when the sun doesn’t shine so strongly but the air is still warm enough to eat something cool.

I don’t like the taste of vanilla, but this dessert always gets round me. I like moving around in the kitchen: trying new or traditional recipes, or rather mixing them. I thought for a long time making floating islands is something very difficult and magical. But then I found this recipe and I changed my opinion because it showed an easy way to make this classic French dessert.

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